There is great comfort in visiting old friends and, after our enjoyable adventures to new locations, there was a different kind of delight in seeing many familiar faces amongst the audience at another excellent night with the Chesham Folk Club.
We have now played Chesham Folk Club a number of times and the club’s wonderful community feel is evident to all. They have club members who have been coming together to sing and perform for many years. The club is very welcoming to its guests and the exchanges between members are often hilarious.
With a slight change of venue to a downstairs room in the White Hill Centre to escape the build-up of heat in the club’s usual top floor room, the club was at full capacity for the evening’s performances.
Bob and Annette started the evening off with a couple of songs, including a delightful version of Sandy Denny’s ‘Who Knows where the Time Goes?’ This was followed by a couple of excellent self-penned songs from Dave Artus, sporting his ‘real granddads play guitar’ tee shirt.
With the daylight slowly fading, we then did our first set and, as always at Chesham, the audience joined in willingly and to great effect on choruses.
After a short break, Bob returned to perform solo. He was followed first by a new visitor to the club who sang a couple of songs a capella (including a robust version of Star of the County Down) and then by club member, Clive Carey, who played two excellent contemporary songs from north of the border.
We then returned to finish off the evening with our second set. Audience participation remained everything we could hope for and we were delighted to be called upon for an encore at the end - which we duly obliged with a rendition of the beautiful Scots song Time Wears Awa’.
Many thanks to Bob, Annette and all the club committee and members at Chesham Folk Club for their continuing support for our music. It was lovely to be introduced as friends of the club, and this is a friendship readily reciprocated on our part. We wish the Chesham Folk Club all the very best for their forthcoming season of featured singers’ nights and for a successful autumn of great music.